A Study On The Interrelationship Of The Reasonableness Of A School's Punishment Regulations For Students, The Teacher's Strictness In The Implementation Of The Regulations And The Deviance Of The Students

The present study aims at the studying of the interrelationship of the reasonableness of a school' s punishment regulations, the teacher' s strictness in its implementation and the deviance of the students. The data for the study is taken from the answers to questionnaires dispatched to the teachers and students under study. The statistical method used is simple random sampling . The sample size is 223 junior-secondary students (119 males and 104 females) and 27 teachers (11 males and 16 females). The collected data is analyzed with Spss 10. 0 which includes Factor Analysis, One-Way ANOVA, Chi Square Test and Bivariate Correlations.The conclusions of the study are:1. The students' viewpoints on the punishment regulations is closely related to the kind of family education they receive at home, their degree of attachment to the school and their degree of susceptibility to external influences.2. Students' deviance is closely related to their attachment to their school.3. The level of strictness with which a teacher implements the punishment regulations is directly related to his attachment to his school, the amount of power delegated to him by the school and the school authority' s way of handling persistent school-rule breakers who show no signs of repentance.4. Students' deviance is unrelated to the reasonableness of the punishment regulations.5. It is the viewpoint of both the teachers and the students that students' deviance is strongly related to the level of strictness with which the punishment regulations are implemented by the relevant teachers.